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...first democracy was born in battle. The strong, proud people who in the Fifth Century B.C. routed the armies and navies of Darius and Xerxes at Marathon and Salamis created in the world a new kind of government while their strength and pride in victory were fresh and powerful. Athens of the Golden Age was an imperialism as well as a democracy, the first empire in history administered by a sovereign people. Its fleet ruled the Aegean and word of government by the people spread through the Mediterranean world as far as the mouth of the Rhone...
idiom; Lucien Lyne, Derby winner in 1902; and Johnny Bullman, winner in 1900-01. Lindheimer's 4-mile race, to be known as the Marathon championship, will enjoy the dubious distinction of being America's longest...
Showman Lindheimer is determined to make Chicago again conspicuous in U. S. racing. In addition to renewing the American Derby, he has this year dug up another old favorite: marathon racing...
...after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence of his personal secretary, whom he calls "Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore, visiting a Santa Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking: "You don't know what it is to be tired unless you've worked for Curtiz." Big, balding, muscular Director Curtiz is married to but living apart from Scena rist Bess Meredyth. Only extravagance...
...Governorship of New York; 1930 and immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's casual okay when Jim Farley put out the first Presidential feelers; 1932, and the cross-continent marathon of Farley handshaking, letter writing, spade work which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago...